Birds of Brazil - Knipolegus


White-winged Black Tyrant (Knipolegus aterrimus anthracinus) Male Machu Picchu, Peru
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White-winged Black Tyrant (Knipolegus aterrimus anthracinus) Female Paucartambo, Peru
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Front view.


Blue-billed Black Tyrant (Knipolegus cyanirostris) Male Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Blue-billed Black Tyrant (Knipolegus cyanirostris) Female Itatiaia National Park, Brazil
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Sao Francisco Black Tyrant (Knipolegus franciscanus) Male ENDEMIC Sobradinho, Brazil
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Sao Francisco Black Tyrant (Knipolegus franciscanus) Female ENDEMIC Sobradinho, Brzail
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Split from the White-winged Black Tyrant, and sometimes called the Caatinga Black Tyrant because of the 'Caatinga' desert region where it is found.


Hudson's Black Tyrant (Knipolegus hudsoni) Male Mendoza, Argentina
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Austral migrant from south Argentina as far north as Paraguay and Bolivia. Female brownish like all female Black Tyrants. Note white band in wings of male. Virtually identical to White-winged Black Tyrant but smaller.


Crested Black Tyrant (Knipolegus lophotes) Altiplano Leste, Brasilia, Brazil
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Velvety Black Tyrant (Knipolegus nigerrimus nigerrimus) Male ENDEMIC Caraça sanctuary, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Velvety Black Tyrant (Knipolegus nigerrimus) Female ENDEMIC Parque Estadual dos Pireneus, Cocalzinho de Goiás, Brazil
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Riverside Tyrant (Knipolegus orenocensis orenocensis) Male Venezuela
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Riverside Tyrant (Knipolegus orenocensis) Female Marchantaria Island, Irandub, Amazonas, Brazil A streaked 'sclateri' female.
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Riverside Tyrant (Knipolegus orenocensis xinguensis) Female Rio Araguaia, Pium, Tocantins, Brazil An unstreaked female.
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The female of the race along the Amazon River is streaked, but is dark grey in the other two races. HBW now called the Amazon River subspecies (sclateri) Sclater's Black Tyrant, and it looks a little like a female Scarlet Flycatcher.


Amazonian Black Tyrant (Knipolegus poecilocercus) Male Puerto Nariño, Amazonas, Colombia
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Amazonian Black Tyrant (Knipolegus poecilocercus) Female Puerto Nariño, Amazonas, Colombia
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Stays one to two meters above the forest floor.


Rufous-tailed Tyrant (Knipolegus poecilurus poecilurus) Reserva Natural las Palmeras, Cubarral, Meta, Colombia
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Local. Note red eye uncommon among Tyrannidae.
Wings lifted.


Cinereous Tyrant (Knipolegus striaticeps) Female Argentina
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